Reef Entertainment kindly invited NookGaming and some other outlets to check out some upcoming NIS America games down in London. Along with that, they brought a special guest: Sohei Niikawa, the former CEO of Nippon Ichi Software, key figure behind the creation of Disgaea, and producer and writer of the upcoming Etrange Overlord. We had […]
Fractured Blooms is an upcoming game by Serenity Forge, who’ve published a share of indie titles that often focus more on story and subversive aspects. It’s being pitched as a psychological “life sim”, which is to say it’s a psychological horror game masquerading as a life sim about gardening and home life. I got the […]
UltraGirl Alters is a story-driven SRPG, where you become the manager of a new tokusatsu-themed virtual idol group. You can command them through battling virtual monsters, growing their skills, and their growth together as a group. It seems like an interesting idea to mix what’s essentially Vtubers, tokusatsu, and SRPG combat, so I picked up […]
Ryne-Arca is an upcoming anime-style action-RPG by indie developer Asuka Watanabe. We had a chance to take an early look at the demo, which will be released in the October 2025 Steam Next Fest. As a disclaimer, this is an early look, and the developer themselves described it as “not polished” and “the beginning of […]
Announced in June of 2025, Lumines Arise is the next installment of the classic puzzle game series Lumines (pronounced like “luminous”). While the series has largely been dormant since its heyday, it looks to return with a bang on Arise’s announced release date of November 11, 2025. The game is brought to you by Enhance […]
Capping off the July 2025 Nintendo Direct were two new games from Square Enix’s Team Asano for their ever-prolific HD-2D banner. After last year’s Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake and the forthcoming Dragon Quest I&II HD-2D Remake (both developed by Artdink instead), we again return to original projects with one being yet another Octopath Traveler […]
Today we’re taking a very early look at Die to Play, a dicebuilder from indie developer Kvinter Games that promises “the deeper you go, the more the game begins to spill beyond the pixelated screen.” Die to Play is slated for a 2026 release, so it’s still early, and this version doesn’t yet have all […]
PROJECT MIX: VR Cyberpunk Bartending is an upcoming virtual reality visual novel hybrid. Take the role of a new bartender in New Mong Kok, Hong Kong and make a new start while getting to know about the lives of your customers. At the time of writing, Project Mix is on Kickstarter and has already been […]
Custom Mech Wars is an upcoming mecha action game developed and published by D3 Publisher, best known for the Earth Defense Force series. Those familiar with the EDF series may well be salivating at the prospect of EDF meets mecha, and I’m happy to say that is exactly what Custom Mech Wars is. A demo […]
Like many others, I quite like KonoSuba. I’ve watched the anime, the movie, the prequel, and I’ve even picked up some of the light novels. So when I heard PQube was going to publish the KONOSUBA – God’s Blessing on this Wonderful World! Love For These Clothes Of Desire! visual novel, I knew I had […]